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THE POST INSIDE: Cheney accidentally shoots, injures man on hunting trip PAGE 5 WEATHER: Mostly cloudy, high 37, low 26 Tuesday: Mostly sunny, high 48 \int \s, OHIO MONDAY. KKBRI ARY 13. 2006 \\\v\v.(lu'pos(.ohiou.t'*lw Making movie magic Chris Mackler/ Staff Photographer Ohio University's School of Telecommunications hosted the fourth annual Shoot Out, a 48-hour student film contest, over the weekend. Teams of students were given 48 hours to produce a three-minute to five-minute video based on randomly assigned topics. Andie Walla, Jonathan Falk and Johnnie Maier film on the set of team "Turbulence's" instructional MacGyver spoof. Par-T-Com ended up winning this year's competition, taking home the $2OO first-place prize. Par-T-Com shoots out competition by Cicely Gilbert For The Post cg137804@ohiou.edu Shoot Out, sponsored by the Ohio University School of Telecommunications, kicked off its fourth annual 48-hour video competition Friday, ending with another Par-T- Com victory. The weekend began when representatives from 29 groups gathered to randomly pick a genre, prop and line of dialogue to incorporate into a three-minute to five-minute film. Most teams limited their preplanningpreplanning to choosing a cast, scouting a location and gathering equipment. "We're using our crew for the cast because it's faster," said junior Patrick Norman, who was the director for Turbulence, a group representing the TCOM 419 production class. Participating in Shoot Out is one of the requirements for the class. "It's a great way to get to know your crew," Norman said. Most participants worked with little or no script to save time, and many stayed awake for the majority of the 48 hours with the help of caffeine and determination. Norman said each team only spent about $5O. "It was exciting having such a deadline," said Daniel Pellegrino, who helped write a musical for the group Stranger Than Paradise. All but two of the teams entered their films by the 7:30 deadline last night. Besides a few audio difficulties, the screening for all 27 films went smoothly. The team leaders announced their criteria for Hw-rgovielaS"packed Walter Hall lecture room. Par-T-Com seemed to be the team to beat. Although its 2004 Shoot Out film "Detonate" was dis- | qualified for being late, it went on to j win mtvU's Best Film on Campus. | Last year, its film "Climax" took j first place in the Shoot Out and was ! added to the Athens International Film & Video Festival. "They're extremely good at what they do," Norman said. Other groups have trouble com- i peting with the quality of equipment Par-T-Com uses, Pellegrini,., said. r 1 Students can't see OU's Vision, survey reveals EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the first in a three-part series examining students', faculty members' and classified employees'opinions of Vision Ohio. by Emily Tudor and Laura Yates Staff Writers etl327o3@ohiou.edu lyloo7o4@ohiou.edu Ohio University's "road map for the future," Vision Ohio, has reached its final form, and implementation teams are creating plans for budgeting and academics, yet some students are unaware of the document and its anticipated effects on the university. In an unscientific poll conducted randomly at various campus locations during the past two weeks, only nine out of -40 students could give at least a vague definition ofVision Ohio. "I've heard of it, but I have no idea what it really is," said sophomore Courtney Owen, who works at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The only reason she was aware of Vision Ohio was because of Vision events that took place in the auditorium, she said. Sophomore Kt Cress guessed Vision Ohio "maybe has something to do with improving the university's campus," while junior Amanda Nowak called Vision Ohio "McDavis' new plan for the university." Neither knew specifics of the plan. The goals of Vision Ohio, which evolved out of OU President Roderick McDavis' 2004 inaugural address, strive to enhance OU's national prominence, create more diversity, increase initiatives and expand JSgipnal partnerships. To promote Vision Ohio, Kathy Krendl, OU provost and Vision task force head, has attended more than 30 forums with OU schools and departments,departments, staff and student senates, campus organizations, classes and the regional campuses. More than 600 staff, faculty and students participated in those forums, according to Vision Ohio's Web site, www.ohiou.edu/outlook/vision."I think Vision Ohio has something to do with electing people in Student Senate," said junior Jenna Gagliardi, confusing Vision Ohio with the Vision party, a senate campaign last year where members wore red "Vision" T-shirts. "Isn't it an alcohol program?" asked sophomore ceramics major Elliot Marquet Sophomore Juliana Schultz said she heard discussion about McDavis asking bar owners to reduce hours during Homecoming weekend and thought it might be part of Vision Ohio. "(McDavis) sees OU as a crazy school and that we need more classes on Friday," she said. Senior economics major Adam Lucchesi correctly identified Vision Ohio as a comprehensive plan for OlTs future but said he is graduating so it is not going to affect him. Freshman Becky Verner said she thought Vision Ohio was "an online thing," while junior political science major Lindsay Zelek-Thompson said it might have "something to do with minorities." McDavis said in a press conference Wednesday that he is working on additional ways to communicate Vision Ohio to students, using e-mails and "other forms of communication" this quarter and next quarter. Freshman Chris Viox read about Vision Ohio through one form of communication created by Student Senate: "Stall Talk," a program that places informational flyers in bathrooms across campus. "Ifs about enhancing what this col- Athens has crying need' for retirement facilities, developer says by Kantele Franko City Senior Writer kG71804@ohiou.edu Editor's note: This is the first in a seven-part series about aging in Athens, the concerns of retirees and soon-to-retire baby boomers. The AARP reports that Ohio has too many long-term care facilities, but advocates of bringing more retirement housing to Athens say the city is an exception to the state trend. Between 18 percent and 20 percent of nursing home beds statewide are empty, said Kathy Keller, a spokeswoman for the Ohio AARE Developers often want to build new care facilities because some would-be patients are disinclined to stay at older buildings, she said. As the baby boomer generation hits retirement and major surgical operations become more common, Keller sad she expects nursing homes to see growing numbers of short-term patients using nursing homes as recuperation sites rather than long-term care. But she also expects that the nursing home populations will continue to fall short of the state's bed capacity and that the creation of other types of retirement housing will surpass the need for them. To profit from people living longer and healthier lives after retirement, developers build retirement communities that include housing for residents needing different levels of care. "It's a money-making operation," Keller said, explaining that residents move into these communities expecting to stay there as they age and begin to need skilled nursing care. But the construction of retirement communities in Athens also is about meeting a need, said Patrick Higgins, a spokesman for the nonprofit developer National Church Residences, which is in the beginning stages of constructing such a retirement community near Stimson Avenue. Athens shows a "crying need" for housing for elderly area-residents and retired professors or alumni of Ohio University who likely would stay in Athens if more facilities were available, Higgins said. In Athens County, 16.2 percent of the population is 55 or older, according to U.S. Census data from 2000. The list of people who have expressed interest in the National Church Residences retirement center has about6oo names, well above the 150 to 250 people the facility could house, he said. National Church Residences plans to build a "continuing care retirement community" of independent living units and assisted care rooms and eventually would like to construct a nursing home, but state restrictions on the number of nursing home beds prohibit that move for now. Those restrictions also have slowed the development of another retirement community on property, owned by University Estates Inc., near state Route 682. Margaret Topping, the 76-year-old president of the committee that invited National Church Residences to consider the city as a development site, said marketing studies of Athens residents and some alumni since the 1970s when Topping participated in the first of sew eral committees to bring more retirement housing to the city—have shown a significant demand for such housing. Athens County population by age groups Source: 2000 U.S. Census Blue Gator management to face copyright lawsuit by Kelly Schwaberow Staff Writer ks179503@ohiou.edu i; In September, Broadcast Music, Inc. fded a lawsuit against Court Street Management, which books shows for The Blue Gator, claiming that the bar owes overdue royalties to the songwriters whose songs were performed there. 'Z After multiple attempts to convince The Blue Gator, 63 N. Court St., to buy a music license that would entitle it to play music produced by over 300,000 songwriters, BMI filed stiif for compensation of unpaid dues since 2002. > Statutory damages could range ffdpi $750 a song performed withoufrpermission from a songwriter ta several thousand dollars a song, said Jerry Bailey, director of media relations for BMI. Joel Schechtman, co-owner of The Blue Gator, said he did not buy the $4,000-a-year license that BMI requires because he thinks the artist is profiting from the music that they are performing; he or she should be responsible for any fees that come along with playing those songs. "I pay (Shirley King) $3,000, but I get charged for what music she plays," Schechtman said. BMI is a private company that operates under a consent agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice to protect the copyrights of songwriters, composers and music publishers. Amusement parks, bowling alleys, athletic clubs and dance classes, hospitals, airports, zoos, museums, parks, skating rinks, swimming pools, hotels and movie theaters require a license from BMI to play any of the songs registered with it, according to its Web site, www.bmi.com. At an eating and drinking establishment, a license can cost from about $3OO to $8,700 annually, according to the license. This number is calculated using a formula that accounts for how often live music is played, whether solo artists or bands perform, whether j DJs perform, if there is karaoke, i if there is a TV or radio in the establishment, whether admissionWomen tell naked truth in 'Vagina Monologues' by Katie Kuehn For The Post kk951303@ohiou.edu Group presents award-winning play in honor ofV-Day Eve Ensler made an astonishing discovery when interviewing women about their vaginas: Women love to talk about their "mushmellow," "coochie snorcher" or "monkey box." She illustrates this point through the humorous and seriousness of her play, 'The Vagina Monologues." The Lost Flamingo Company, Ohio University's only studentrun theater group, premiered the award-winning play last night to a packed Baker University Center's 1804 Lounge. The play is based on the author's interviews with 200 women of different ages, nationalities, backgrounds and experiences. The 16-member female cast was able to bring feelings other than disgust and contempt to the word "vagina." The piece addressed all the different issues that women have in regards to that area "down there," including hair, finding and understanding the clitoris, menstruation and all the "psycho products," such as tampons, douches and thongs, made to "decorate" the vagina. These female concerns were all discussed with a truthful, sarcastic tone that made even the men in the audience laugh. More serious issues, such as rape and female genital mutilation, provided interesting statistics coupled with true-life stories. "The monologues ring true to something you've experienced," said Amanda Barrett, a student at Kent State University, who came to see her friend, Meghan Bartley, perform in the show. All of these conversation top- If You G0... What: "The Vagina Monologues" presented by the Lost Flamino Company When: 8 tonight and Tuesday Where: Baker University Center's 1804 Lounge Admission: $3 ics are typical among women, she said. OU junior Ashley Luu enjoyed the show, particularly the "Vagina Happy Fact," which poinied out there are 8,000 nerve fibers in the clitoris, a higher concentration than the tongue and fingertips and twice the amount of the penis. "(The show) is a celebration of women in different ways," said senior Emily Maluski, director of the show. "It shows what a woman can go through and how she keeps going." Rob Hardin/ Senior Staff Photographer Sophomore Kate Krushinksi performs last night in Baker University Center's 1804 Lounge as a part of "The Vagina Monologues." The play also will take place tonight and Tuesday with proceeds going to My Sister's Place and the "comfort women" ofWodd War 11. See SHOOT OUT page 4 See VISION page 4 See BMI page 4 See VAGINA page 4

THE POST INSIDE: Cheney accidentally shoots, injures man on hunting trip PAGE 5 WEATHER: Mostly cloudy, high 37, low 26 Tuesday: Mostly sunny, high 48 \int \s, OHIO MONDAY. KKBRI ARY 13. 2006 \\\v\v.(lu'pos(.ohiou.t'*lw Making movie magic Chris Mackler/ Staff Photographer Ohio University's School of Telecommunications hosted the fourth annual Shoot Out, a 48-hour student film contest, over the weekend. Teams of students were given 48 hours to produce a three-minute to five-minute video based on randomly assigned topics. Andie Walla, Jonathan Falk and Johnnie Maier film on the set of team "Turbulence's" instructional MacGyver spoof. Par-T-Com ended up winning this year's competition, taking home the $2OO first-place prize. Par-T-Com shoots out competition by Cicely Gilbert For The Post cg137804@ohiou.edu Shoot Out, sponsored by the Ohio University School of Telecommunications, kicked off its fourth annual 48-hour video competition Friday, ending with another Par-T- Com victory. The weekend began when representatives from 29 groups gathered to randomly pick a genre, prop and line of dialogue to incorporate into a three-minute to five-minute film. Most teams limited their preplanningpreplanning to choosing a cast, scouting a location and gathering equipment. "We're using our crew for the cast because it's faster," said junior Patrick Norman, who was the director for Turbulence, a group representing the TCOM 419 production class. Participating in Shoot Out is one of the requirements for the class. "It's a great way to get to know your crew," Norman said. Most participants worked with little or no script to save time, and many stayed awake for the majority of the 48 hours with the help of caffeine and determination. Norman said each team only spent about $5O. "It was exciting having such a deadline," said Daniel Pellegrino, who helped write a musical for the group Stranger Than Paradise. All but two of the teams entered their films by the 7:30 deadline last night. Besides a few audio difficulties, the screening for all 27 films went smoothly. The team leaders announced their criteria for Hw-rgovielaS"packed Walter Hall lecture room. Par-T-Com seemed to be the team to beat. Although its 2004 Shoot Out film "Detonate" was dis- | qualified for being late, it went on to j win mtvU's Best Film on Campus. | Last year, its film "Climax" took j first place in the Shoot Out and was ! added to the Athens International Film & Video Festival. "They're extremely good at what they do," Norman said. Other groups have trouble com- i peting with the quality of equipment Par-T-Com uses, Pellegrini,., said. r 1 Students can't see OU's Vision, survey reveals EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the first in a three-part series examining students', faculty members' and classified employees'opinions of Vision Ohio. by Emily Tudor and Laura Yates Staff Writers etl327o3@ohiou.edu lyloo7o4@ohiou.edu Ohio University's "road map for the future," Vision Ohio, has reached its final form, and implementation teams are creating plans for budgeting and academics, yet some students are unaware of the document and its anticipated effects on the university. In an unscientific poll conducted randomly at various campus locations during the past two weeks, only nine out of -40 students could give at least a vague definition ofVision Ohio. "I've heard of it, but I have no idea what it really is," said sophomore Courtney Owen, who works at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. The only reason she was aware of Vision Ohio was because of Vision events that took place in the auditorium, she said. Sophomore Kt Cress guessed Vision Ohio "maybe has something to do with improving the university's campus," while junior Amanda Nowak called Vision Ohio "McDavis' new plan for the university." Neither knew specifics of the plan. The goals of Vision Ohio, which evolved out of OU President Roderick McDavis' 2004 inaugural address, strive to enhance OU's national prominence, create more diversity, increase initiatives and expand JSgipnal partnerships. To promote Vision Ohio, Kathy Krendl, OU provost and Vision task force head, has attended more than 30 forums with OU schools and departments,departments, staff and student senates, campus organizations, classes and the regional campuses. More than 600 staff, faculty and students participated in those forums, according to Vision Ohio's Web site, www.ohiou.edu/outlook/vision."I think Vision Ohio has something to do with electing people in Student Senate," said junior Jenna Gagliardi, confusing Vision Ohio with the Vision party, a senate campaign last year where members wore red "Vision" T-shirts. "Isn't it an alcohol program?" asked sophomore ceramics major Elliot Marquet Sophomore Juliana Schultz said she heard discussion about McDavis asking bar owners to reduce hours during Homecoming weekend and thought it might be part of Vision Ohio. "(McDavis) sees OU as a crazy school and that we need more classes on Friday," she said. Senior economics major Adam Lucchesi correctly identified Vision Ohio as a comprehensive plan for OlTs future but said he is graduating so it is not going to affect him. Freshman Becky Verner said she thought Vision Ohio was "an online thing," while junior political science major Lindsay Zelek-Thompson said it might have "something to do with minorities." McDavis said in a press conference Wednesday that he is working on additional ways to communicate Vision Ohio to students, using e-mails and "other forms of communication" this quarter and next quarter. Freshman Chris Viox read about Vision Ohio through one form of communication created by Student Senate: "Stall Talk," a program that places informational flyers in bathrooms across campus. "Ifs about enhancing what this col- Athens has crying need' for retirement facilities, developer says by Kantele Franko City Senior Writer kG71804@ohiou.edu Editor's note: This is the first in a seven-part series about aging in Athens, the concerns of retirees and soon-to-retire baby boomers. The AARP reports that Ohio has too many long-term care facilities, but advocates of bringing more retirement housing to Athens say the city is an exception to the state trend. Between 18 percent and 20 percent of nursing home beds statewide are empty, said Kathy Keller, a spokeswoman for the Ohio AARE Developers often want to build new care facilities because some would-be patients are disinclined to stay at older buildings, she said. As the baby boomer generation hits retirement and major surgical operations become more common, Keller sad she expects nursing homes to see growing numbers of short-term patients using nursing homes as recuperation sites rather than long-term care. But she also expects that the nursing home populations will continue to fall short of the state's bed capacity and that the creation of other types of retirement housing will surpass the need for them. To profit from people living longer and healthier lives after retirement, developers build retirement communities that include housing for residents needing different levels of care. "It's a money-making operation," Keller said, explaining that residents move into these communities expecting to stay there as they age and begin to need skilled nursing care. But the construction of retirement communities in Athens also is about meeting a need, said Patrick Higgins, a spokesman for the nonprofit developer National Church Residences, which is in the beginning stages of constructing such a retirement community near Stimson Avenue. Athens shows a "crying need" for housing for elderly area-residents and retired professors or alumni of Ohio University who likely would stay in Athens if more facilities were available, Higgins said. In Athens County, 16.2 percent of the population is 55 or older, according to U.S. Census data from 2000. The list of people who have expressed interest in the National Church Residences retirement center has about6oo names, well above the 150 to 250 people the facility could house, he said. National Church Residences plans to build a "continuing care retirement community" of independent living units and assisted care rooms and eventually would like to construct a nursing home, but state restrictions on the number of nursing home beds prohibit that move for now. Those restrictions also have slowed the development of another retirement community on property, owned by University Estates Inc., near state Route 682. Margaret Topping, the 76-year-old president of the committee that invited National Church Residences to consider the city as a development site, said marketing studies of Athens residents and some alumni since the 1970s when Topping participated in the first of sew eral committees to bring more retirement housing to the city—have shown a significant demand for such housing. Athens County population by age groups Source: 2000 U.S. Census Blue Gator management to face copyright lawsuit by Kelly Schwaberow Staff Writer ks179503@ohiou.edu i; In September, Broadcast Music, Inc. fded a lawsuit against Court Street Management, which books shows for The Blue Gator, claiming that the bar owes overdue royalties to the songwriters whose songs were performed there. 'Z After multiple attempts to convince The Blue Gator, 63 N. Court St., to buy a music license that would entitle it to play music produced by over 300,000 songwriters, BMI filed stiif for compensation of unpaid dues since 2002. > Statutory damages could range ffdpi $750 a song performed withoufrpermission from a songwriter ta several thousand dollars a song, said Jerry Bailey, director of media relations for BMI. Joel Schechtman, co-owner of The Blue Gator, said he did not buy the $4,000-a-year license that BMI requires because he thinks the artist is profiting from the music that they are performing; he or she should be responsible for any fees that come along with playing those songs. "I pay (Shirley King) $3,000, but I get charged for what music she plays," Schechtman said. BMI is a private company that operates under a consent agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice to protect the copyrights of songwriters, composers and music publishers. Amusement parks, bowling alleys, athletic clubs and dance classes, hospitals, airports, zoos, museums, parks, skating rinks, swimming pools, hotels and movie theaters require a license from BMI to play any of the songs registered with it, according to its Web site, www.bmi.com. At an eating and drinking establishment, a license can cost from about $3OO to $8,700 annually, according to the license. This number is calculated using a formula that accounts for how often live music is played, whether solo artists or bands perform, whether j DJs perform, if there is karaoke, i if there is a TV or radio in the establishment, whether admissionWomen tell naked truth in 'Vagina Monologues' by Katie Kuehn For The Post kk951303@ohiou.edu Group presents award-winning play in honor ofV-Day Eve Ensler made an astonishing discovery when interviewing women about their vaginas: Women love to talk about their "mushmellow," "coochie snorcher" or "monkey box." She illustrates this point through the humorous and seriousness of her play, 'The Vagina Monologues." The Lost Flamingo Company, Ohio University's only studentrun theater group, premiered the award-winning play last night to a packed Baker University Center's 1804 Lounge. The play is based on the author's interviews with 200 women of different ages, nationalities, backgrounds and experiences. The 16-member female cast was able to bring feelings other than disgust and contempt to the word "vagina." The piece addressed all the different issues that women have in regards to that area "down there," including hair, finding and understanding the clitoris, menstruation and all the "psycho products," such as tampons, douches and thongs, made to "decorate" the vagina. These female concerns were all discussed with a truthful, sarcastic tone that made even the men in the audience laugh. More serious issues, such as rape and female genital mutilation, provided interesting statistics coupled with true-life stories. "The monologues ring true to something you've experienced," said Amanda Barrett, a student at Kent State University, who came to see her friend, Meghan Bartley, perform in the show. All of these conversation top- If You G0... What: "The Vagina Monologues" presented by the Lost Flamino Company When: 8 tonight and Tuesday Where: Baker University Center's 1804 Lounge Admission: $3 ics are typical among women, she said. OU junior Ashley Luu enjoyed the show, particularly the "Vagina Happy Fact," which poinied out there are 8,000 nerve fibers in the clitoris, a higher concentration than the tongue and fingertips and twice the amount of the penis. "(The show) is a celebration of women in different ways," said senior Emily Maluski, director of the show. "It shows what a woman can go through and how she keeps going." Rob Hardin/ Senior Staff Photographer Sophomore Kate Krushinksi performs last night in Baker University Center's 1804 Lounge as a part of "The Vagina Monologues." The play also will take place tonight and Tuesday with proceeds going to My Sister's Place and the "comfort women" ofWodd War 11. See SHOOT OUT page 4 See VISION page 4 See BMI page 4 See VAGINA page 4